From: "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@suse.com>
To: Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Cc: anthony.perard@citrix.com, xen-devel@lists.xensource.com,
IanCampbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>,
Fabio Fantoni <fabio.fantoni@m2r.biz>,
Stefano.Stabellini@eu.citrix.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] libxl: add stdvga video memory setting with upstream qemu
Date: Mon, 19 May 2014 13:07:27 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <537A101F0200007800013976@mail.emea.novell.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <21369.61571.200554.932239@mariner.uk.xensource.com>
>>> On 19.05.14 at 13:52, <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com> wrote:
> Jan Beulich writes ("Re: [PATCH v2] libxl: add stdvga video memory setting
> with upstream qemu"):
>> On 19.05.14 at 13:41, <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com> wrote:
>> > So I would be inclined not to backport this one. I've added Jan, the
>> > hypervisor-side stable tree maintainer, in case he has a different
>> > view.
>>
>> Help me understand the implications on the guest that this
>> changed (corrected) interpretation of the config file would have:
>> Would the guest see differing resources between reboots?
>
> Yes. Also it might be that the configuration file has a wrong value
> which was previously ignored but now causes something to fail.
>
>> Would such differences also surface post-migration (which would
>> pretty clearly make this a no-go for a backport)?
>
> Yes, with the current state of affairs, it would indeed see
> differences across migration.
In which case I agree that this would better not be backported.
Jan
prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-05-19 12:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-05-09 13:04 [PATCH v2] libxl: add stdvga video memory setting with upstream qemu Fabio Fantoni
2014-05-15 15:58 ` Ian Campbell
2014-05-15 15:59 ` Ian Campbell
2014-05-15 16:00 ` Ian Campbell
2014-05-19 8:44 ` Fabio Fantoni
2014-05-19 11:41 ` Ian Jackson
2014-05-09 12:55 ` [PATCH v2] libxl: fix cirrus vga " Fabio Fantoni
2014-05-15 16:00 ` Ian Campbell
2014-05-19 8:43 ` Fabio Fantoni
2014-05-19 11:43 ` [PATCH v2] libxl: fix cirrus vga video memory setting with upstream qemu [and 2 more messages] Ian Jackson
2014-05-19 11:50 ` [PATCH v2] libxl: add stdvga video memory setting with upstream qemu Jan Beulich
2014-05-19 11:52 ` Ian Jackson
2014-05-19 12:07 ` Jan Beulich [this message]
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=537A101F0200007800013976@mail.emea.novell.com \
--to=jbeulich@suse.com \
--cc=Ian.Campbell@citrix.com \
--cc=Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com \
--cc=Stefano.Stabellini@eu.citrix.com \
--cc=anthony.perard@citrix.com \
--cc=fabio.fantoni@m2r.biz \
--cc=xen-devel@lists.xensource.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).